1044 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS 



Use : — An infusion of the leaves is drunk for contusions 

 produced by blows, and about Kumaon the same preparation 

 is used as a bitter tonic and febrifuge. (Stewart). 



1015. Otostegia limbata, Benth. Mss.; h.f.b.l, iv. 

 680. 



Vern. : — Bui, phiitkanda, jandi, lana, kandiari, agzhan, 

 awani-buti Pb.). 



Habitat : — Punjab, lower hills, in rocky places, west of the 

 Jhelum to the Salt Range. 



A small grey, hoary spiny bush. Branches tomentose, white, 

 terete. Spines J-fin. Leaves sub-sessile elliptic-lanceolate, 

 obtuse or quite entire, nerveless lin., base narrowed, hoary on 

 both surfaces, floral exceeding the calyces. Bracts lower spinescent, 

 upper dilated pungent, whorls distant. Calyx villous, throat 

 bearded, flowering Jin., turbinate with a broad membranous 5- 

 toothed limb, which in fruit expands into a reticulated 5-angled 

 cup, fin. diam., with often toothed margins. Corolla Jin., tube 

 short, upper lip very long, villous. Stamens exserted. Nutlets 

 Jin , flattened, smooth. 



Uses : — The juice of the leaves is applied to children's gums, 

 and to ophthalmia in man and beast. (Stewart). 



1016. Leucas cephalotes, Spreng., h.f.b.l, iv. 689. 



Syri. : — Phlomis Cephalotes, Roth Koxb. 461. 



Vern. :— Dhurpi sag (H.); Bara palkasa (B.); Audia dhurup 

 arak (San tali) ; Kubi (Guz.) ; Pedda tumui, tum-ui (Tel ); Kedari 

 Tumba(Mar.). Phumian, sisalius, maldoda, guldoda, chatra (Pb.); 



Habitat :— Himalaya, from Simla to Bhotan. Plains from 

 Chittagong and Assam to the Punjab, and south through the 

 Deccan. 



A tall stout scaberulous annual herb. Stem 2-3ffc., hairs 

 spreading. Leaves membranous, more or less pubescent, 2-4in., 

 shortly-petioled ovate or ovate-lanceolate, sub-acute, crenate ser- 

 rate ; whorls l-2in. diam. very large-rounded by the imbricating 

 membranous adpressed bracts ; terminal whorls globose. Bracts 

 elliptic or linear-lanceolate, awned. Calyx fin., tubular slightly 



